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<body> <div id="header"> <span class="left"> <span class="back"><a href="lthread_list.php?webtag=DEFAULT"><span class="image mobile_back" title="Back"></span></a></span> <span class="image mobile_logo" title="Beehive Forum Logo"></span> </span> <ul> <li> <a class="reply_all" href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=30444.0&return_msg=30444.1"> <span class="image mobile_reply_all"></span><span class="text">Reply to All</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="navigation" href="#"> <span class="image mobile_navigation"></span><span class="text">Show messages</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="main" href="#"><span class="image mobile_menu" title="Menu"></span> </a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="menu main"> <ul> <li><a href="lthread_list.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Messages</a></li> <li><a href="lpm.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Inbox</a></li> <li><a href="lsearch.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Search</a></li> <li><a href="llogon.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Login</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="menu navigation"><a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=30444.1">1–6</a></div> <div id="page_content"> <h3 class="thread_title"><a href="index.php?webtag=DEFAULT&amp;msg=30444.1">I need a regexp</a> </h3> <div id="messages" data-navigation="30444_1_6_10"> <a name="a30444_1"></a><div class="message" id="message_30444_1"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: af (CAER)<span class="message_time">29 Aug 2006 16:53</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: ALL<span class="message_count">1 of 6</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=30444.1">30444.1</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Specifically, a regular expression to use in the Search and Replace box to remove double newlines.<br /> <br /> See, I'm on the J-list.com mailing list which is full of interesting things about Japan and stuff, problem is the lines are all double-spaced, like so:<br /> <div class="quotetext" id="quote"><b>quote: </b></div><div class="quote">Well, I'm back in Japan now, the land of sushi and small cars and very cute<br /> <br /> things. No matter how often I zip between the U.S. and Japan it always takes a<br /> <br /> couple hours to get used to my new environment, and I like to sit back and<br /> <br /> "surf" the various shades of culture shock that wash over me (no doubt helped<br /> <br /> along by jet lag). As I stepped off the plane this time, I was immediately hit<br /> <br /> by the sticky, wet heat that is Japan's June rainy season, an unfortunate<br /> <br /> aspect of living here. There was a small mix-up with one of my packages not<br /> <br /> appearing on the baggage carousel, which was resolved by three Narita airport<br /> <br /> employees who did their jobs so professionally I was actually unable to speak,<br /> <br /> so great was my awe while watching them. </div><br /> <br /> I would like to print these e-mails but not with the spacing and stuff like that as it's most unwieldy and just plain wrong <span class="emoticon e_csad" title=":C"><span class="e__">:C</span></span><br /> <br /> PLEASE HELP ME (L) </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=30444.1&return_msg=30444.1" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="30444.1"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a30444_2"></a><div class="message" id="message_30444_2"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)<span class="message_time">29 Aug 2006 17:12</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: af (CAER) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 29 Aug 2006 17:13"></span></span> <span class="message_count">2 of 6</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=30444.2">30444.2</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=30444.1#a30444_1" target="_self">30444.1</a></div> <div class="message_body"> \n is newline, so replacing \n\n with \n should work.<br /> Unless they also use carriage returns, in which case you'll be wanting something more like \r\n\r\n with \n (or \r\n if necessary)<br /> <br /> However, when you say "to use in the Search and Replace box" you have me slightly confused - which search and replace box?<br /> Not all of them do regex.<br /> If you don't already have something that does it, then Metapad (<a href="http://liquidninja.com/metapad/">http://liquidninja.com/metapad/</a>) has limited regex, and will work for this (it also avoids the carriage return issue too). </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=30444.2&return_msg=30444.1" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="30444.2"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a30444_3"></a><div class="message" id="message_30444_3"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: af (CAER)<span class="message_time">29 Aug 2006 17:18</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 29 Aug 2006 17:39"></span></span> <span class="message_count">3 of 6</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=30444.3">30444.3</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=30444.1#a30444_2" target="_self">30444.2</a></div> <div class="message_body"> <p>Either in OpenOffice Writer or ConTEXT, both of which have a regex option.</p> <p> </p> <p>Now, \n doesn't seem to get found. What's that about then?</p> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=30444.3&return_msg=30444.1" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="30444.3"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a30444_4"></a><div class="message" id="message_30444_4"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)<span class="message_time">29 Aug 2006 17:43</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: af (CAER) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 29 Aug 2006 17:44"></span></span> <span class="message_count">4 of 6</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=30444.4">30444.4</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=30444.1#a30444_3" target="_self">30444.3</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Hmmm, maybe try <b>[\n]</b> (although that shouldn't be necessary).<br /> <br /> Also worth searching for just \r on the offchance that it's an old Mac file (which wouldn't make sense, but nothing wrong ruling it out).<br /> <br /> Oooh, and you may need to turn on multiline mode.<div class="edit_text">EDITED: 29 Aug 2006 17:43 by BOUGHTONP</div> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=30444.4&return_msg=30444.1" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="30444.4"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a30444_5"></a><div class="message" id="message_30444_5"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Matt<span class="message_time">29 Aug 2006 17:47</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: af (CAER) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 29 Aug 2006 17:49"></span></span> <span class="message_count">5 of 6</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=30444.5">30444.5</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=30444.1#a30444_3" target="_self">30444.3</a></div> <div class="message_body"> <p>Are you trying to search for files from within ConTEXT / Writer containing \n or opening the files and searching within them? For whatever reason some editors refuses to find \n in files using the find in files option, but the regular search and replace on opened files will work.</p> <p> </p> <p>Otherwise I must conclude that they're both doing something stupid.</p> <p> </p> <p>And like don't be forgetting that different platforms have different line endings, so while \n\n would work for *nix platforms you'd need to search for \r\n\r\n for Windows and \r\r for Mac.</p> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=30444.5&return_msg=30444.1" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="30444.5"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a30444_6"></a><div class="message" id="message_30444_6"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: af (CAER)<span class="message_time">29 Aug 2006 18:08</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Matt <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 29 Aug 2006 18:09"></span></span> <span class="message_count">6 of 6</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=30444.6">30444.6</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=30444.1#a30444_5" target="_self">30444.5</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Well I dunno what was up with ConTEXT but I managed to do it in Writer by first doing a S&R for $^ and replacing it with blank, which removed all empty paragraphs, then I just replaced $ with ' ' which replaced the paragraph breaks with spaces but skipped over the remaining empty paragraphs. All is well. </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=30444.6&return_msg=30444.1" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="30444.6"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div></div> </div> </body>